Upcoming events:

Composer, radio host and co-author of “Ennio Morricone – In His Own Words” (Oxford University Press, 2019) Alessandro De Rosa returns for a Part 2 discussion of his three-plus years of conversations with Ennio Morricone at his home which resulted in the book, along with a listen to some of Alessandro's own compositions influenced by Il Maestro. Check out Part 1 HERE (the June 2, 2020 show) if you missed it live.

Composer/trumpeter Terrence Blanchard discusses his score for Spike Lee's Netflix Vietnam war drama "
Da 5 Bloods" (June 12). Blanchard has scored or performed on nearly every Spike Lee soundtrack since 1989's "Do The Right Thing," including 2018's Oscar-nominated "BlacKkKlansman." Blanchard grew up playing music in New Orleans with Wynton & Branford Marsalis before joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1980s and releasing over 30 albums as a bandleader or co-bandleader.

January 29, 2019: RIP Michel Legrand
Morricone Island pays tribute to French child prodigy pianist and composer of over 200 soundtracks Michel Legrand passed away at 86 on Saturday, best known for his 1968 Oscar-winning "Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair and Jacques Demy's Palme D'Or-winning 1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg working with the likes of musicians Miles Davis, Getz, Coltrane, Ray Charles, Streisand and Maurice Chevalier and filmmakers Godard, Altman, Louis Malle, Orson Wells and Claude Lelouch.